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ISSUED BY 

LAND DEPARTMENT 

OF THE 

St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern and 
Little Rock & Fort Smith Railways 

Little Rock, Arkansas 




Penters Bluff, Independence County. 



NORTHEAST 
ARKANSAS 



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INDUSTRIAL SERIES— No. 9 



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Issued by LAND DEPARTMENT of the St. Louis, 
Iron Mountain & Southern and Little Rock 
& Fort Smith Railways, Little Rock, Arkansas 



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In the early days of the old world, away back in the dim days 
of history's dawn, humanity spread in all directions from the cradle 
of the race, by means of a series of migratory waves. In those 
ages the impulses and habits of man were savage and cruel, "might 
made right," and the weak had no valid claim upon the considera- 
tion of the strong. When the old home became too small to 
accommodate the people of a nation, swarming occurred, as a 
result of some internal influence, and a portion of the inhabitants, 
often numbering many thousands, detached themselves in a body, 
and taking their families and movable possessions with them, 
poured out into the wilderness or territory of neighboring tribes, 
slaying or driving out the people, and confiscating their property 
and lands. Violence and conquest accompanied each migratory 
movement, national wealth was usually accumulated by wholesale 
murder, pillage and robbery, and the new home was wrested by 
force from the former owner. 

These were the attributes and the practices of the ancient home- 
seeker. 

Times and customes have changed, and in this particular our 
race is infinitely the gainer. Now the people of the new or sparsely 
settled country advertise for and invite the conquest, and when the 
wave of immigration appears, the "guest chamber is made ready 
and the feast spread." This is the yankee way, and this is the 



plan that is now being pursued by the people of Northeast Arkan- 
sas to induce the good people of all the older sections of our 
country to come here for new and prosperous homes. 

In order to induce investigation it is not necessary to extol the 
fertility of our soils, the salubrity of our climate nor to point out 
our close proximity to market, for everybody who has ever given 
a thought to seeking a new home, already understands these for- 
tunate features of our State. We will therefore confine ourselves 
in this pamphlet, to a brief description of a few of the north-east- 
ern counties of Arkansas, naming and describing the many good 
cities and towns located there, together with a general statement 
of the various lines of farming and other industries which are best 
adapted to, and most profitable in each special neighborhood. 

We will try to make these statements as accurate and compre- 
hensive as possible, keeping constantly in view the interests and 
desires of the Homeseeker, in whose hands we place these pages, 
to be to him a guide and not an advertisement. 




NORTHEAST 
ARKANSAS 




CLAY COUNTY. 

Area, 649 Square Miles. Population, 15,886. County Seats, Corning and 
Pig-gott. Railway Lands for Sale, 11,000 Acres. 

This is the northeast corner county of Arkansas. The soil 
is a limestone silt, liberally mixed with dark sand, resting on a 
subsoil of red clay. The surface runs from gently rolling in the 
center to flat in both the east and west sections, with sufficient 
elevation in all parts for drainage purposes. Timber growth, oak, 
gum, hickory, elm, sycamore and cottonwood, with a sprinkling of 
poplar and walnut. Farm products are corn, wheat, oats, rye, 
millet, sorghum, cotton, potatoes, melons and vegetables. Early 
apples, peaches, pears, plums, grapes and small fruits. It is a good 
general stock country, and horses, cattle, hogs, sheep and poultry 
are successfully raised. Wild game is plentiful and the county 
is famous for its fishing. Corning, with a population of 784 and 
Piggott with 495 are the county seats and are both railroad towns 
and good trading points. Knobel and Rector are also good towns. 

Railroad lands range in price from $3.50 for the poorest and 
most remote up to $15.00 per acre for the most desirable. These 
prices may be considered as a basis upon which to estimate the 
value of improved lands, by adding to them the value of improve- 
ments. The industrial future of this county will be purely agri- 
cultural. 



RANDOLPH COUNTY. 

Area, 644 Square Miles. Population, 17,156. County Seat, Pocahontas. 
Railway Lands for Sale, 9,360 acres. 

Randolph county borders on the Missouri line, and is second 
from the Mississippi river. Its surface ranges from gently to heav- 
ily rolling and is crossed by several wide river and creek valleys. 
The soil comes largely from the disintegration of heavy deposits 
of limestone and is mixed with sand and generally underlaid by 
clay. 

The minerals found within the county are, iron, lead, zinc, mar- 
ble, limestone and valuable brick and tile clays. 

All grains, grasses, fruits and vegetables which were mention- 
ed as adapted to the foregoing county also do well here. Heavy 
breeds of domestic animals do well below the stone levels, while 
lighter varieties are better suited to the higher altitudes. Game 
and fish are still plentiful. Pocahontas is the county seat and prin- 
cipal town and has a population of about i,ooo. There are few ne- 
groes in the county. Heavy German colonies, both of catholic and 
protestant, are fast buying up and improving the available lands, 
prices of which range at from $3.50 to $10.00 per acre according to 
soil, location and value of timber growth. Improved lands may be 
had by paying an additional price to cover cost of improvements. 

Farming, fruit raising, mining and manufacturing will all figure 
as important industries in the future of this locality. 

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GREENE COUNTY. 

Area, 544 Square Miles. Population, 16,979. County Seat, Paragould. 
Railway Lands for Sale, IS, 360 Acres. 

Greene county lies south of Clay and the St. Francis river forms 
its eastern boundary. Its surface is mostly level but is clossed 
from north to south, near the center, by Crowley's Ridge, which 
rises to an elevation of from 30 to 60 feet above the bottom lands 
on either side. The soil on the ridge is a dark red clay loam, with 
enough of sand intermixed to make it work easily, while the bottom 
lands are covered by a deep, dark alluvium. The subsoil is of red 
and yellow clay. The timber growth is the same as that of Clay 



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county, consisting entirely of hard wood. A long list of farm pro- 
ducts are profitably grown, consisting of everything that can be 
grown on this latitude in the Union. It is a fine live stock country. 
Large game is becoming scarce but small game is plentiful and 
fishing is fine. The county is crossed by the Cache river. Both 
the St. Louis, Iron-Mountain and Southern and the St. Louis, 
Southwestern railroads cross the county and give it first class 
railroad privileges. 

Paragould, the county seat, is a fine city of about 4,500 popula- 
tion, located in a high, sightly place on the east slope of Crowley's 
Ridge, and has fine schools, many churches and all modern, pub- 
lic improvements. Delaplaine and Marmaduke are also railroad 
towns and good trading points. The population of this county is 
nearly all white and comes from almost every State in the Union. 
Land prices range at from $3.50 to $15.00 for wild land, improved 
farms in proportion. These prices are too low when the earning 
capacity of the soil and the desirability of the location are con- 
sidered, for the lands will, under operation, pay a fair income on 
$50.00 per acre. Agriculture will always be the leading industry of 
the people. 



LAWRENCE COUNTY. 

Area, 589 Square Miles. Population, 16,491. County Seats, Walnut 
Ridge and Powhatan. Railway Lands for Sale, 9,350 Acres. 

Lawrence county is one of the leading counties of Northeast- 
ern Arkansas and varies in surface from mountainous in the west 
to great stretches of fine bottom land in the east. The soil varies 
with the surface from clay loam to rich, deep alluvial deposits. Sub- 
soil, is red and yellow clay and in the western part is often under- 
laid on the plateaus by immense beds of limestone and marble. Iron 
zinc, and lead are found and manganese, phosphate and sulphur are 
probabilities. The full list of farm products mentioned in connec- 
tion with other counties in the vicinity thrive here. Her soil and 
the water supply is unexcelled in both quality and quantity. All 
the leading farms are supplied with drive wells that are inexhaust- 
able. Timothy, clover, alfalfa, Kentucky blue grass and all the 



other leading pasture and meadow grasses do well. It is a first- 
class live stock country. 

The Black river flowing through the center of the county is a 
fine navigable stream, while the Cache in the eastern section and 
the Strawberry river in the west end are also splendid streams. 
Game and fish are plentiful and fine camping places are found 
everywhere. The county is crossed by the main lines of both the 
Iron Mountain and Frisco systems which give first-class, compet- 
ing service to all leading markets. Walnut Ridge is the leading 
city, with a population of more than 1,100, is located on the Iron 
Mountain Railway near Hoxie, its junction with the Frisco where 
a division station and round house is maintained by the former 
road. Other towns are Minturn, Alicia, Powhatan and Black 
Rock. It may not be amiss to state here that the little city of 
Walnut Ridge is conspicuous for its neat, clean, thriving appear- 
ance. It is a first-class point for either a home or business loca- 
tion and on account of its exceptionally fortunate railroad facili- 
ties is destined to become a very important city. A heavy move- 
ment of settlement from the States of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, 
Illinois, Iowa and Missouri has been centering in the vicinity for 
several months past. Many fine farms are being opened up by 
the new citizens and prices of farm lands are begining to rise as a 
result. There is but very little negro population in Lawrence 
county, and as the present movement is entirely of whites who 
have not been accustomed to managing colored help it is safe to 
say that few negroes will ever live there. There is scarcely a line 
of rural industry which is not adapted to Lawrence county. 



SHARP COUNTY. 

Area, 606 Square Miles. Population, 17,199. County Seats, Hardy and 
Evening Shade. Railroad Lands for Sale, 1,292 Acres. 

This county lies almost entirely outside of the limits of the 
Iron Mountain Railway land grant, hence the small acreage of 
land owned by the company. It lies in a section that is generally 
mountainous, but is crossed by several rich valleys and the plateau 
lands are very productive. The soil is from limestone formation 



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and underlaid by a good foundation of clay and stone. The tim- 
ber consists of an almost endless variety of growth, mostly hard- 
wood with a sprinkling of walnut and red cedar. Iron, zinc, lead, 
marble, limestone, phosphate rock and Manganese are the miner- 
al deposits which occur. Where the surface is smooth enough for 
farming, fine yields of all crops are secured. Fruits, especially ap- 
ples and stone fruits are profitable. Live stock of all kinds do 
well. Game and fish are plentiful and beautiful scenery adds much 
to the general attractiveness of the locality. The north end of the 
county is crossed by a railroad, thus giving a market outlet for pro- 
ducts. Hardy is the leading town and Evening Shade is also a 
thriving place. Population is almost entirely white and of native 
and northern birth. Land prices are low owing to lack of railroad 
facilities. The section is best adapted to fruit growing, but fine 
productive grain lands are found on the smoother plateaus and 
broader valleys. The mineral deposits will form the basis of great 
industries as soon as they are reached by transportation. 



CRAIGHEAD COUNTY. 

Area, 682 Square Miles. Population, 19,505. County Seats, Jonesboro 
and Lake City. Railroad Lands for Sale, 2,960 Acres. 

This county lies about thirty-five miles south of the Missouri 
line and the same distance west of the Mississippi river. Crow- 
ley's Ridge passes through the center from north to south dividing 
it into two almost equal sections. That on the east contains the 
greater portion of the "sunk land" district, which is drained by 
the St. Francis River, while the part lying west of the ridge com- 
prises the wide, rich valley of the Cache River. Both these div- 
isions are low and level and must be drained by deepening and 
straightening the channels of the two streams. When this is ac- 
complished the whole face of the county will be a veritable garden 
of fertility. The steam shovel will make more millionaires in this 
and surrounding counties than all other industries combined. All 
the native and cultivated products of the soil which are adapted to 
the normal conditions of the section, do well in Craighead county. 
Architectual clays of fine quality and a superior variety of yellow 



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ocher are found. Live stock, from horses to poultry does well. 
Plenty of game and fine fishing are among the attractions. Three 
systems of railroad traverse the county, all centering^ at Jonesboro, 
the chief city, where a population of 4,508 forms a busy, modern 
center. About 80 per cent, of the population is white, many of 
whom are Germans from the northern states and Germany. Land 
prices run from $3.00 up and the destiny of the county is an agri- 
cultural paradise. 



JACKSON COUNTY. 

Area, 643 Square Miles. Population, 18,383. County Seat, Newport. 
Railroad Lands for Sale, is,660 Acres. 

Located in the center of northeast Arkansas, touched b} three 
navigable streams and crossed by two independent railway sys- 
tems with a surface just right for farming and a soil of inexhaust- 
able fertility, the great wonder is that land in this splendid county 
can be bought so cheap. The great forest of valuable woods 
is fast yielding place to fine fields of cotton, corn, wheat, oats, 
potatoes, and almost any other crops her people choose to plant. 
Fine herds of blooded cattle, hogs and sheep are found about the 
homes of the leading farmers, and orchards of fine fruits lend an 
air of luxury and ease to their surroundings. Game is fast step- 
ping aside to give place to domestic animals, but fish are plentiful 
and many well stocked lakes and streams are well known to lovers 
of the sport in other States. Newport is a city of more than 4,000 
people, and is rapidly expanding in population, trade and manu- 
factures. Other towns are Swifton, Tuckerman and Jacksonport. 
A heavy colored population is employed on the great cotton plan- 
tations of the county, but they form an unimportant factor 
as compared with the total population. Lands can be had 
at from $5.00 to $15.00 per acre. Because of its location 
at the entrance of the Grand Scenic Valley of the upper White 
river, its many miles of railway and navigable stream, together 
with the home products of its forests and fertile soil Jack- 
son county and the city of Newport are destined to great indus- 
trial development in many lines, and no one who is in search of a 
home or a business location will be disappointed if he locates here. 



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INDEPENDENCE COUNTY. 

Area, 779 Square Miles. Population, 22,557. County Seat, Batesville. 
Railroad Lands for Sale, 25,586 Acres. 

Bisected by the White river and bounded on the east by the 
Black, both navigable, traversed by the new, through line (White 
River Branch) of the Iron Mountain Railway. With a grandness 
of mountain scenery, with fertile soils from plateau to valley, with 
great deposits of phosphate rock, manganese, marble limestone 
and iron, the attractions and possibilities of this county are won- 
derful. The bit of scenery shown in our frontispiece — Penters Bluff, 
with a glimpse of the river and distant peaks in the back ground 
— is located on the New White River Line, and the photo was taken 
from the back platform of the train while passing through this 
county. The tops of the mountains form broad, fertile plateaus 
adapted to the raising of all crops and particularly .-'excel in fruit 
production. Live stock does well and outside pastures are fine. 
There is no need to mention game or fish or camp life in this con- 
nection, for a glance at our frontispiece tells to the sportsman a 
story which can not be told in words. 

Batesville the county seat has a population of more than 2,500 
and is one of the leading educational centers of Arkansas. Other 
promising towns are Moorefield, Newark and Mount Olive. The 
people of Independence county are thoroughly alive to the possi- 
bilities in store for the locality and are willing and anxious to 
lend a helping hand in the interest of progress and to welcome 
the new comer, who visits the county in search of a home. 



POINSETT COUNTY. 

Area, 727 Square Miles. Population, 7,025. County 
Seat, Harrisburg. 

Is located almost entirely outside the limits of the Iron Moun- 
tain land grant, and that road never had a large acreage of lands in 
this county. With the exception of a narrow strip extending north 
and south across the center of the county, the surface is low 
and level, but is all drainable and will develop rapidly into fine 
farms. The soil is mostly alluvial and very rich. Subsoil yellow 



and red clay. Like her neighbor counties in the flat sections her 
timber growth has been superb, and of great economic value. The 
products of the soil are raised with great profit and nearly the en- 
tire acreage of the county is fertile, yielding all farm crops in pro- 
fusion. The county is at present noted for its live stock, the great 
woods pastures being utilized to some extent by the residents. 
Game and fish are plentiful. Harrisburg is the chief town and 
claims 500 inhabitants. Greenfield and Weiner are also growing 
villages. A heavier negro population is found in this than in pre- 
ceding counties owing to a considerable area being utilized for 
cotton growing. Lands are very cheap, but are good in quality 
and prices will rise rapidly with demand. The county is fitted for 
general farming and its future wealth will be dug from the soil. 



CROSS COUNTY. 

Area, 629 Square Miles. Population, 11,051. County 
Seat. Vanndale. 

Lies south of Poinsett, about one-third of the area is gently 
rolling, the balance lies low and level, with just sufficient elevation 
and slope to permit of easy drainage. The soil is alluvial and un- 
derlaid by red and yellow clay. Fine drinking water is secured 
everywhere at depths ranging from sixteen to sixty feet. Drive 
wells can be procured in all sections except along the summit of 
Crowley's Ridge. Good brick clay are found in many places. While 
fine, hardwood timber is the rule all over the section, that of east- 
ern Cross county is noted as being especially heavy. Cotton, corn, 
cane, wheat, oats, rye, red and crimson clover, alfalfa, timothy 
and other grasses are successfully produced. All fruits adapted to 
the latitude, and the various kinds of live stock are raised. Game 
is still plentiful in the most thinly settled parts and fish fill all the 
fine rivers, creeks and lakes of the section. The county is most 
fortunate in transportation facilities, having two lines of the Iron 
Mountain system and the main line of the Cotton Belt. White in- 
habitants are largely in the majority, the negroes being employed 
almost exclusively in the cotton fields and as heavy laborers about 
the many saw mills. Wild lands range in price from $3.50 to $10.00. 



This county is destined to become very important in agricultural 
industry, and great activity in drainage work has begun. Wynne 
is the leading city, at the junction of two branches of the Iron 
Mountain system, is a division station and has a population of 
nearly 2,000. 



WOODRUFF COUNTY. 

Area, 593 Square Miles. Population, 16,304. County Seat, Augusta. 
Railroad Lands for Sale, 2,958 Acres. 

Lies west of Cross county and east of the White river. Its 
surface is low and level. Soil alluvial. Almost the entire area of 
the county is fine cotton or corn land. The timber consists of the 
various hard woods native to the section, with cypress and tupello 
gum swamps skirting the streams. Products are the same as in the 
preceding county, game abounds in the wild districts. Augusta 
is the leading town and McCrory is a good business point. Land 
values range higher than in some of the neighboring counties, and 
heavy acreages of cotton and corn have been raised for many years. 



WHITE COUNTY. 

Area, 1,035 Square Miles. Population, 24,864. County Seat, Searcy. 
Railroad Lands for Sale, 61,158 Acres. 

Beginning at the White river this great county runs west for 
nearly forty miles. The surface gradually rising until an elevation 
of nearly a thousand feet is reached. The soil is as varied as the sur- 
face and is adapted to an equally varied list of products. It is 
often said in connection with the productiveness of this region, 
"raise anything possible in the southwest and we will duplicate it 
in White county, Arkansas." That part which lies adjacent to the 
Iron Mountain Railway and near the cities of Beebe and Judsonia 
has become famous for market gardening and small fruits, while 
near the city of Searcy large orchards of pears and peaches are 
now being planted. Transportation facilities are first-class and all 
lines of industry are fostered. 



The chief cities are Searcy, B-eebe, Tudsonia and Bald r£nob. 
At Beebe heavy settlements are being made by people from Ten- 
nessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and the northwest. There 
are but few negroes in this county. The people are prosperous, 
energetic and progressive and unite upon and push every proposi- 
tion which is for the public good. This is an extra desirable lo- 
cality in which to locate a home or place an investment in land, 
as prices are now far below the figure where the fertility of the soil 
combined with the high character of the people will ultimately 
fix them. 



CLEBURNE COUNTY. 

Area, 635 Square Miles. Population, 9,628. County 
Seat, Heber. 

Located entirely within the Boston Mountains, its surface 
consists of broad plateaus, separated by deep, broad valleys. The 
Little Red river cuts Cleburne county into two nearly equal sec- 
tions, from which stream the country rises in both directions un- 
til an elevation of about 1,000 feet is reached. Through the disin- 
tegration of the local deposits of sandstone together with silt, from 
limestone and phosphate rock deposits further up the streams, a 
fine alluvial soil has been formed in the valleys, while the plateau 
soils are rich in potash, iron and humus and a combination, upland 
and valley place, in this section would be hard to beat for gen- 
eral purpose farming. The uplands are especially adapted to fruit 
and live stock, at the same time producing good crops of wheat 
and fair yields of corn, oats and cotton, while the valley soils 
are the finest for general grain raising. The timber of this county 
is mostly hard wood, but there is a sprinkling of pine on the up- 
lands. Like all her sister counties, Cleburne is a paradise for the 
sportsman and angler. She has no navigable water nor as yet rail- 
roads, although a line is now projected down the valley of the Lit- 
tle Red river, which will no doubt be completed within the next 
year. 

The crowning glory of this county is her magnificent medi- 
cinal waters and healing springs, which, notwithstanding their isola- 



tion and remoteness from transportation have already become noted 
and much frequented by the afflicted from other States. The popula- 
tion of this county is exclusively white. Deeded lands can be had at 
from $3.00 to $10.00 per acre and government lands are yet ob- 
tainable in the more remote parts. 



LONOKE COUNTY. 

Area, 784 Square Miles. Population, 22,544. County Seat, Lonoke. 
Railroad Lands for Sale, 6,260 Acres. 

Located near the center of the State, its surface generally 
level or very gently rolling with sufficient elevation to permit of 
easy drainage, a soil rendered rich by receiving the wash from 
the mountain districts further west. This is one of the most fertile 
counties of this section of the State. All grains, cotton, vegetables 
and small fruits are raised. Dairying for the Little Rock and Hot 
Springs city market is an important industry. Rice growing has 
also been tried and found successful. Live stock of all kinds does 
well and some of the best equipped breeding farms of the State 
are located here. Lonoke, Carlisle, Austin, Cabot and England are 
the leading towns. A heavy colored population occupies the large 
cotton plantations in the southern part, but in the central and north- 
ern sections the people are nearly all white. Lands range in price 
from $3.50 to $30.00 according to soil, location and improvements. 
General farming, dairying and stock raising will always be the lead- 
ing industries. 



PULASKI COUNTY. 

Area, 788 Square Miles. Population, 63,179. State Capital and County 
Seat, Little Rock. Railroad Lands for Sale 50,510 Acres. 

Located in the exact center of the State. The surface varies 
from mountainous in the western to low and level in the eastern 
part. Has a great variety of soil and subsoil adapted to the suc- 
cessful production of a correspondingly large variety of products. 
The city of Little Rock, with more than 50,000 population, forms a 



local market which renders the industries of truck gardening, fruit 
raising and dairying very profitable. Along the Arkansas river are 
some of the finest cotton and corn lands in the world. The tim- 
ber growth, which consists of both hard woods and pine is fast dis- 
appearing. Owing to its prominence as a railroad center Little 
Rock is fast becoming an important manufacturing and wholesale 
point and with these facts in view land prices ranging all the way 
from $5.00 to $25.00 for railroad lands to $60.00 per acre for the best 
of improved farms may be considered ridiculously cheap. 

The principal minerals found in this county are bauxite, from 
which aluminum is secured, heavy deposits of which are found and 
worked, in the southern and southwestern section. Lead and zinc, 
in small quantities in the northwest corner. Iron in the west, 
plumbago, slate, soapstone, potters clay and superior granite in 
three colors. There are also indications of coal, copper, silver and 
petroleum. 

Farmers, stockmen, gardeners, manufacturers, miners, quarry- 
men, laborers, professional men and capitalists, will alike find this 
county a profitable and satisfactory place to locate. 



THE WHITE RIVER VALLEY. 

There is perhaps no section of the United States which is at the 
present time exciting deeper and more wide-spread interest, than 
the wonderful Valley of this great river. Since the beginning 
of construction of the new White River Branch of the St. Louis, 
Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, from Batesville, Arkansas, to 
Carthage, Mo., the attention of the public has for the first 
time been attracted to the grand scenic features of this region. 
Leaving the city of Newport, where this line branches off from the 
Iron Mountain main line the route for about twenty-five miles lies 
in the midst of gently rolling lands, dotted here and there with 
well tilled fields and well filled pastures. Several small villages 
are passed, then we reach the beautiful city of Batesville with its 
fine business blocks, comfortable homes and many churches and 
colleges. Leaving here we suddenly plunge into the depths of the 
rugged and grand. The road hugs the base of the cliffs along the 



margin of the river bottom, often where the crystal waters wash 
the precipice, excavations were necessary under the ledges for the 
road bed. From the first entrance into the mountains, ever chang- 
ing objects of interest succeed each other so rapidly that the tour- 
ist is bewildered and lost in admiration. As we pass on the grand- 
eur increases, the colorings of foliage and rocks become more 
varied and each succeeding promontory becomes loftier until their 

summits seem to 
pierce the clouds. 
Nor are the wonders 
of this region con- 
fined to the roadbed 
or river front. On 
the contrary, the un- 
accounta ble and 
mysterious works 
and formations of 
nature are multiplied 
as you leave the val- 
leys and penetrate 
the narrow, dark 
chasms of the in- 
terior, or stroll over the broad plateaus, where awe-inspir- 
ing and interesting objects constantly cluster around you. 
There are many caves of strange and varied character. Some filled 
with stalactites and stalagmites. Some strewn with diamond cover- 
ed objects resembling animals, buildings, alters and household 
furniture. Others contain streams and lakes. Some known as blow- 
ing caves which inhale and exhale, and seem to be "old earth's 
breathing holes." Others are inhabited by myriads of bats and all 
are filled with strange noises, echoes and sound reverberations 
which strike terror into the average heart. Few of these caves have 
been explored throughout, and stand there flaunting a perpetual 
challenge in the face of every visitor. There are also found natural 
wells, some of them overflowing and all of them bottomless, so far 
as is known. There are the chimney rocks, natural cas- 
tles and haystack rocks, inviting the learned of the world to hazzard 
a "guess" at the "secret of their presence" and formation. Crystal 




Springs, pools and streams, with fern covered and grassy banks, 
cool shady nooks where leasure hours may be pleasantly passed 
are among the attractions for the pleasure seeker of this Arkansas 
Wonderland. 

Let us now view the substantial side. Let us glance at the broad 
valleys covered deep in their inexhaustable, alluvial soils, let us 
ascend the mountain and view as far as the eye can reach on 
every side the great stretches of gently undulating plateau lands, 
rich as a garden and adapted to prolific production of all the crops 
native to our latitude. There the apple, peach, pear, cherry, grape 
and a long list of small fruits and vegetables, mature in premium 
taking quality. Scan the slopes and cliffs and behold the great 
masses of iron, lead, zinc, manganese, phosphate rock, limestone 
marble and countless other minerals only waiting for your enter- 
prise and industry to transform your "time into money." 

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We can only add, your presence is requested at your own leis- 
ure, to come and view these things with your own eyes. 



RAILROAD LANDS. 

The St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern and Little Rock & 
Fort Smith Railways own nearly two million acres of land in the 
State of Arkansas, which are offered to actual settlers at low prices 
and on easy terms. These lands lie in the counties of Clay, Ran- 
dolph, Greene, Lawrence, Sharp, Craighead, Jackson, Indepen- 




Map showing the Iron Mountain and Little Rock and Fort Smith 
Railroad Land Grants. 

dence, Woodruff, White, Cleburne, Prairie, Lonoke, Pulaski, Sa- 
line, Grant, Garland, Hot Spring, Dallas, Clark, Pike, Howard, 
Sevier, Hempstead, Nevada, Ouachita, Little River, Miller, Lafay- 
ette, Faulkner, Perr}^, Conway, Van Buren, Pope, Johnson, Yell, 
Logan, Franklin, Crawford and Sebastian, and comprise lands of 



every description. For information relative to dates and route of 
land excursions, the reader is requested to correspond with any of 
the agents named on pages 31 and 32 of this pamphlet. 



COME TO ARKANSAS. 

Since its admission into the Union Arkansas has never ceased 
to advance. She has never had a boom; she has never had a set- 
back. Her natural resources are so great and varied in their char- 
acter, so strong and far-reaching in their attractiveness, that im- 
migration has, through all the years, come to her in a steady stream 
and, like her great rivers, it never flows backward. 

There is not an acre of her surface which does not, in its wild 
state, produce something of value which can be turned into cash 
on the markets of the world. 

Her agricultural lands cover an area of more than twenty-five 
millions of acres, only about one-third of which are now under 
cultivation. 

Her lands which are especially adapted to fruit growing com- 
prise nearly twenty million acres, and not one-twentieth are now 
utilized for that purpose. 

More than seven million acres contain valuable minerals, almost 
entirely undeveloped, and much of it never having been prospected. 

In a coal field underlying nearly five million acres and yielding 
a quality of smokeless coal generally considered equal, and by some 
superior, to Pennsylvania hard coal, hardly a score of mines are 
operated. 

Her timber land originally covered almost the entire thirty- 
three million acres comprising the State, and there is enough mer- 
chantable timber now standing, which, if manufactured into lumber 
and sold at market price, would produce funds sufficient to buy 
and pay for all the farming land in our sister State of Kansas at 
assessed valuation. 

Four million acres contain valuable architectural stone and 
clays, and it is almost untouched. 

A few of our medicinal springs are improved, and nearly an 
hundred thousand of the world's afflicted make annual pilgrimages 
to Arkansas to partake of the health and life-giving waters. 



More than three thousand miles of majestic, navigable rivers, 
almost entirely unimproved today, are destined to be converted 
into ship canals and commerce carriers, their immeasurable power 
utilized, and their banks lined by thousands of factories ere the 
passing of the present generation. 

With all these unused and undeveloped possessions, Arkansas 
invites the farmer, the fruit grower, the miner, the manufacturer, 
the merchant, the capitalist, the professional man, the invalid, the 
industrious, the enterprising, the deserving of all vocations, to 
come and build their homes. Come! She will do you good! 




f . . > 

Standard Publications 



OF THE 



LAND DEPARTMENT of the 

St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern 
and Little Rock& Ft. Smith Railways 



CECTIONIZED, topographical roller map of Arkansas, size 40x44 inches. 
•^ This is the most comprehensive and complete map of the State ever 
compiled. Price, 25 cents. 

Special Land Grant map of Arkansas, size 28 x 30 inches. Price, 15 
cents. 

THE FOLLOWING PAMPHLETS, 

When ordered singly, will be sent free to any address. When full set or 
more than one copy is desired, 2 cents for each copy should be enclosed to 
pay cost of transmission. 

Arkansas and Her Resources. Free. 

A Fruitful Hand. Free. 

Arkansas Fills the Bill. Free. 

The World's Orchard. Free. 

Arkansas as an Agricultural State. Free. 

The Angora Goat in Arkansas. Free. 

Stock Raising in Arkansas. Free. 

Mineral Wealth of Arkansas. Free. 

Manufacturing Opportunities in Arkanaas. Free. 

Timber Resources of Arkansas. Free. 

Something Doing in Arkansas. Free. 

Northeast Arkansas. Free. 



Address all requests for Literature to 

G. A. A, Deane, Land Com'r 

LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 



Note. — To those who desire to subscribe for an Agricultural Paper, published in this 
State, we take pleasure in recommending the ARKANSAS HOME-SEEKER, published 
monthly in Little Rock. Subscription price, 50 cents per year. Sample copy sent free on 
application to the publisher. 



For 

Information 
Relative to 



RAILROAD 
LANDS... 



WRITE TO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING AGENTS 
OF THE 



LAND DEPARTMENT 



St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern and 
Little Rock & Fort Smith Railways 



GENERAL AGENT 



E. S. Cronk, St. Louis, Mo. 

DISTRICT AGENTS 

Richard Jackson, Paragould, Ark. J. W. Cheek, Little Rock. 

V. M. Threlkeld, Little Rock. 

LOCATING AGENTS 



E. N. Royal, Piggott, Ark. 

S. C. Dowell, Walnut Ridge, Ark. 

H. N. Beam, Beebe, Ark. 

W. L. Cooper, Benton, Ark. 

J. P. Mellard, Hot Springs, Ark. 

A. M. and A. Crow, Arkadelphia. 

H. B. McKenzie, Prescott, Ark. 

John W. Yoes, Van Buren, Ark. 

W. G. Caldwell, 



S. Carrigan, Hope, Ark. 
W. H. Duncan, Conway, Ark. 
N. T. Hawkins, Morrilton, Ark. 
R. B. Wilson, Russellville, Ark. 
C. Elsken, Paris, Ark. 
H. A. Allison, Clarksville, Ark. 
J. P. King, Ozark, Ark. 
Geo. Peaslee, Russellville, Ark. 
Searcy, Ark. 



G. A. A. DEANE, Land Com'r 



Little Rock, Ark. 






Valuable Assistance 



THE 



Missouri 
Pacific- 
Iron 

Mountain 

Railway 

System 



H. C. TOWNSEND, 

General Passenger and 
Ticket Agent, 

St. Louis. 



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The following Traveling and Passenger Agents of 
the Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron Mountain 
Route are constantly looking after the interests 
of the line, and will call upon parties contemplat- 
ing taking a trip and cheerfully furnish them low- 
est rates of fare, maps, guides, time tables, etc., or 
they may be addressed as follows: 



Atchison, Kan C. F. Lechler 

Boston, Mass.. 192 "Washington St.. Louis W. Ewald 

Chattanooga, Tenn., 16 E. 8th St 1. E. Rehlander 

Chicago. 111.; Ill Adams St Bissell Wilson 

Cincinnati, O., 409 Walnut St A. A. Gallagher 

Detroit, Mich., 32 Campus Martius.H. D. Armstrong 
Indianapolis, lnd. Room 200 Sentinel Building.. 

li. A. A. Deane, Jr. 

Kansas City, Mo., 901 Main St C. E. Styles 

Kansas City, Mo., 901 Main St J. H. Lyon 

Kansas City, Mo . , 901 Main St E. S. Jewett 

Leavenworth, Kan P. C. Lyon 

Lincoln, Neb. 1039 O St F. D Con-ell 

Louisville, Ky., 202 Equitable Building 

R. T. G. Matthews 

Memphis, Tenn. , 314 Main St H. D. Wilson 

New York City, 335 Broadway W. E. Hoyt 

Omaha, Neb., corner 14th and Douglas Sts 

Thos. F. Godfrey 

Pittsburg, Pa., Room 905 Park Buildingg 

John R. James 

St. Joseph, Mo., 602 Edmond St Benton Quick 

Sedalia, Mo J. W. McClain 

St. Louis, Mo B. H. Payne 

St. Louis, Mo., Sixth and Olive H. F. Berkley 

St. Louis, Mo., Room 402, Union Sta. . . W. H. Morton 

Wichita, Kan., cor. Douglas and Wichita Sts. .. 
1. R. Sherwin 



J 



Russell Harding 



C. G. Warner 

Vice-President Vice-Pres't and Gen'l Mgr. 

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI 



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MAP 



SHOWING THE 



Land Grants 



St. Louis, 

Iron Mountain 

& Southern 



Little Rock 

& Fort Smith 

Railways 



Arkansas. 



Two Million Acres of 
Land adapted to Farm- 
ing, Grazing, Fruit 
Growing and Timber. 

v v v 

Sold in Tracts to suit the 
Purchaser, and on easy terms to 
actual settlers. 



Widely varying soil, surface, 
altitude and latitude, make it 
possible for us to suit the 
requirements of all who till the 
soil. 



For Full Information 

and descriptive Pamphlets, 
Free, write and explain your 
needs to 

G. A. A. D E A N E, 

Land Commissioner 

Little Rock, Arkansas 



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